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NO STOPPING: KOCE-TV’s venerable news host Jim...

By Jerry Hicks, Eric Lichtblau and Helene Elliott
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NO STOPPING: KOCE-TV’s venerable news host Jim Cooper has been on screen lately from the Orange County Jail, touting an upcoming documentary as part of the Huntington Beach public TV station’s 20th anniversary package this week. The half-hour show on Shortstop, a local juvenile detention program, runs today at 4:30 p.m. and Friday at 8:30 p.m. . . . Says Shortstop’s Kathy Bonner: “Mr. Cooper was unbelievably wonderful. We’re excited they chose us.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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